Reform
This movement, inspired by the 2nd Great Awakening, aimed to eliminate alcohol from American society.
What is the Temperance Movement?)
The Southern economy was based largely on this cash crop.
What is cotton?
This landmark Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review, significantly increasing the power of the federal judiciary.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This invention revolutionized communication across long distances.
What is the telegraph?
She led a campaign to improve conditions for the mentally ill and prison reform.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This compromise temporarily resolved the issue of slavery in the Louisiana Territory.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This 1832 act, passed by South Carolina, challenged federal tariff laws and led to a confrontation over the balance of power between state and federal governments.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This group was created to terrorize freedmen and suppress their rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This easily connected the east and west coasts for the first time.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The Seneca Falls Convention was the beginning of this reform movement.
What is the Women’s Rights Movement?
The North supported tariffs for this reason.
What is to protect American industry?
This legislation from Congress allowed Andrew Jackson to take full control in dealing with South Carolina.
What is the Force Bill?
These laws limited the freedom of African Americans in the post-war South.
What are Black Codes?
These two immigrant groups helped build much of the U.S. railroad system.
What are the Irish and Chinese?
This formerly enslaved man became one of the most powerful abolitionist speakers and published his own newspaper, The North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This law allowed settlers to decide on slavery in new territories, increasing tensions.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This compromise kept the balance of free and slave states while asserting federal power over expansion following the Mexican War.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
These amendments aimed to protect the civil rights of freedmen.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
Workers formed these to improve wages and conditions.
What are labor unions?
This educational reformer argued that public schools would help create informed citizens.
Who is Horace Mann?
The violent conflict in Kansas between pro- and anti-slavery settlers was known as this.
What is “Bleeding Kansas”?
This 1857 decision ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This Supreme Court case upheld segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This theory was used to justify the success of the wealthy during industrial growth.
What is Social Darwinism?